Inside Out And Back Again Analysis

A immigrant or a refugee is a person who has left their home because they are scared of the war . Once refugees leave home, they have to find a home in another country. When refugees flee, their lives turn inside out because of all the changes they go through and everything they leave behind or lose. In the novel Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai, Ha and her family are living in the middle of the Vietnam War. Ha is ten years old and has many different types of strong personalities she is hopeful that she can see her father and the war will end and she can see her dad again but she is not that innocent and understands the dangers that come with living in a country driven by war.

Refugees’ lives turn inside out when having to deal with

In the text “Refugee children in Canada,” it was said that “Some have lost many family members and many have lost everything that was familiar to them” (Fantino and Colak 10). Losing everything you have ever known would turn your life inside out especially when you don’t have any family to lean against. When refugees lose family members, they start to feel that their lives have been turned inside out. In the “Children of War” text, Amela said, “Before the war I really enjoyed life. But after I found out about my father’s death, everything seemed so useless I couldn’t see any future for myself” (Brice 26). Finding out that that you lost a close family member could change how you feel significantly because you may lose an a important figure in your life In the book “Inside Out and Back Again,” Ha never got a chance to meet her father. She had always thought he was looking for them all hope was crushed when her mom came home telling them their father died . In the poem truly gone,“Your father is truly gone” (Lai 250).

Learning a new language can be very hard, but later refugees will get used to it and that will be turning their life back again. “Children of War,” Amela explained how the people in America treated her “children of war: Amela says “Here, people don’t judge you” (Brice 26). No one treated her differently because she is Muslim the text also states Some people here don’t even know where Bosnia is, but they’re really nice and try to help” (Brice 26). Amelia's country and school treated normal her which made it easier for her life to turn back again. For Ha things were not as easy as it was for Amela people in her community threw rocks at her window and the kids at her school pulled her arm hair and called her pancake face “By the end of school he yells an answer: She should be a pancake. She has a pancake face.(”Lai 290”) the kids at Ha’s school did not accept her for what she looked liked. But there was also people who helped her turn her life back again like Miss washington who helped Ha learn english “She comes close and hugs me. Right then I tell her about the pancake. She hugs me tighter”( Lai 297) Miss Washington was there for Ha and helped her when she was sad. A girl named Pam helped Ha to fit in better by